This paper analyzes the cross-border risks that could result from a decarbonization of the world economy. We develop a typology of cross-border risks and their respective channels. Our qualitative and quantitative scenario analysis suggests that the mid-transition - a period during which...

Detailed information on the consumption footprint of households is essential for the distributional assessment of their carbon and other environmental impacts. The analysis and monitoring of footprint inequalities helps policymakers to formulate incentives for promoting sustainable lifestyles...

We explore how optimal emission abatement trajectories are affected by dynamic characteristics of greenhouse-gas emitting systems, such as inertia, induced innovation, and pathdependency, by formulating a compact and analytically tractable model with stylized damage assumptions to derive the...